Violence as a Generative ForceDuring two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzyin which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caveswas the culmination of a chain of local massacres that began earlier in the